God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

I have to live with both my selves as best I may.

Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed princely or lowly it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves.

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.

The best people renounce all for one goal the eternal fame of mortals but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

A lot of women these days a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap hideous 'girl power' sort of fad which I think is pretty benign at best but at worst I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion.

Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can.

We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.

When we seek to discover the best in others we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.